Title: CSS "body" background image source
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# CSS "body" background image source

 *  [Jackflash101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackflash101/)
 * (@jackflash101)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-body-background-image-source/)
 * Hello and good day—
 * I am playing around with how this works. using the tutorial on w3schools.com,
   I’m learning how to make an image into the background for any given page. Using
   a command, such as: body {background-image:url(‘paper.gif’);} how would I tell
   the web site where the photo/image is located? For instance, I have a pic on 
   my desktop with the filename “Engraving.” My hard drive is the C: drive.
 * How would I figure what folder/path to tell the program to look in, to grab that
   image? Or does the image need to be in the set of files hosted at Godaddy?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-body-background-image-source/#post-4302266)
 * the image needs to be hosted or uploaded somewhere on a server;
 * you can for instance use the ‘media uploader’ within the dashboard for this purpose;
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Media_Add_New_Screen](http://codex.wordpress.org/Media_Add_New_Screen)
   
   or use FTP; [http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)
 *  Thread Starter [Jackflash101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackflash101/)
 * (@jackflash101)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-body-background-image-source/#post-4302390)
 * Thanks for your help.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-body-background-image-source/#post-4302390)
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